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8 unusual facts about Horton


Catherine Fillol

Catherine Fillol (or Filliol) (c. 1507 - c.1535) was the daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Fillol (1453 - 9 July 1527), of Woodlands, Horton, Dorset, and of Fillol's Hall, Essex.

Gervase Jackson-Stops

Jackson-Stops developed a unique home in The Menagerie, a Grade II listed building at Horton, Northamptonshire, part of the estate buildings for the now demolished Horton House and seat of the Earl of Halifax.

Horton and Wraysbury

There are two polling stations within the ward - one inside the Village Hall in Wraysbury and the other in the Champney Hall in Horton.

Horton-cum-Studley

The Buckinghamshire part of Studley became a separate civil parish, but was then transferred to Oxfordshire under the Reform Act 1832 and the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844.

Horton, Berkshire

John Milton the English poet is one of the more famous former residents of Horton.

Horton, Somerset

They decided to try to raise some money for charity and arranged a village fete to raise money for Dr Barnardos.

Robert Wilmot-Horton, 3rd Baronet

Born Robert John Wilmot, Wilmot-Horton was the only son of Sir Robert Wilmot, 2nd Baronet, of Osmaston, near Derby (see Wilmot baronets), and his first wife Juliana Elizabeth (née Byron).

Sir Danvers Osborn, 3rd Baronet

During the subsequent years, Danvers Osborne was a guest, often, at the Montagu-Dunk's manor of Horton (Northamptonshire).


1973–74 Buffalo Sabres season

Early on the morning of February 21, 1974, while driving on the Queen Elizabeth Way from Toronto to Buffalo in his white De Tomaso Pantera sports car, (a gift from Sabres' GM George "Punch" Imlach), Horton was involved in what is now an infamous accident.

Abbott Records

Robison placed Horton on Cliffie Stone's Hometown Jamboree program, based out of Pasadena, California, which aired on KXLA on radio and KCOP (later KLAC) on television.

Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn

Anne Horton (née Anne Luttrell, later the Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn) (24 January 1743 – 28 December 1808) was a member of the British Royal Family, the wife of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn.

Bay Township, Michigan

Bay Township's central village, Horton Bay, was featured in several of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories including "The End of Something".

Beckley, Oxfordshire

Beckley and Horton remained with the Bertie family until 1919, when Viscount Bertie, son of Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon, broke up the estate and sold it in small lots.

Budiman Mohd Zohdi

Budiman also has a Neuro-linguistic programming certificate from the prestigious NFNLP USA (Dr William Horton).

Castle Ashby

These include work by the architect E.F. Law of Northampton, whose work can also be seen nearby at Horton Church.

Charalambides

In addition the two have collaborated with numerous other musicians such as Loren Mazzacane Connors, Yellow Swans and Robert Horton.

Clinton T. Horton

Clinton Thompson Horton (October 31, 1876 in Petrolia, Butler County, Pennsylvania – January 25, 1953) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Dicken Ashworth

On television, can be a regular cast member in several soap operas – playing Alan Partridge in Brookside from 1983 to 1985, Geoff Horton in Coronation Street from 1992 to 2000 and he played the role of Duke Woods in Emmerdale from June 2007 until early 2008.

Donna Fargo

Additionally, almost everything Fargo recorded for years was self-penned, although by the latter half of the 1970s she was also recording covers of songs from writers as diverse as Stonewall Jackson, Vaughn Horton, Bill Enis and Lawton Williams, Paul Anka, and Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil; those covers also became successful hits for Fargo.

Echo Eggebrecht

Eggebrecht has held solo exhibitions at Horton Gallery, New York; Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York; Ter Caemer Meert Contemporary, Kortijk, Belgium; Sixtyseven, New York and Sixspace in Los Angeles as well as group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; ICA; Nicole Klagsburn; and White Box in New York; Groeflin Maag Gallery in Basel, Switzerland; Poets on Painters at the Ulrich Museum.

Elizabeth Horton

Elizabeth "Liz" Horton was Miss North Carolina 2006 and is now a weather anchor and reporter at ABC-11 (WTVD-TV) in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Ellen Tarry

Tarry published four picture books: 1940's Janie Belle (illustrated by Myrtle Sheldon), 1942's Hezekiah Horton (illustrated by Oliver Harrington), 1946's My Dog Rinty in collaboration with Caldecott Medal winner Marie Hall Ets (photographs by Alexander and Alexandra Alland), concerning a Harlem family and their mischievous pet, and 1950's The Runaway Elephant (again illustrated by Harrington), which continued the relationships started in Hezekiah Horton.

Entoloma mathinnae

The species was described in 2009 in the journal Mycotaxon by Australian mycologists Genevieve Gates, Bryony M. Horton, and Dutch Entoloma authority Machiel Noordeloos.

Ephraim Morse

In June 1869, he moved to the new development of Horton's Addition, also known as New Town, organized and promoted by the successful land merchant Alonzo Horton.

Everest Syndrome

The Everest Syndrome, named by Maddux (cited in Gallo & Horton, 1994, p. 17) refers to the tendency of teachers to feel the need to use technology, specifically the Internet, in their classrooms simply because it exists (Maddux's choice of words may have been influenced by a reason attributed to George Mallory for wanting to climb Mount Everest).

Friends of Seagate Inc.

Freeman Horton was an accomplished engineer who was best known for building the original Sunshine Skyway Bridge across Tampa Bay from Saint Petersburg in Pinellas County through the waters of Hillsborough County to Tiera Ceia in Manatee County that replaced a ferry service between the two land areas.

Heidi Burge

Heidi Ann (Burge) Horton (born November 11, 1971 in Fairfax, California) is an American former professional women's basketball player.

Honky Tonk Man

"Honky-Tonk Man", 1956 country song by Johnny Horton, also covered by Bob Luman and Dwight Yoakam

Horton in Ribblesdale

During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the monks' interests at Horton in Ribblesdale was attributed with an annual income of £32 and 5 shillings; and was given to the Earl of Lennox.

Horton Plaza and Broadway Fountain

The plaza is bordered to the north by Broadway Ave and the U.S. Grant Hotel, former site of the Horton House Hotel.

Jeff Horton

Horton was hired by Tim Brewster in January 2010, after Jedd Fisch left for an opportunity to be the quarterbacks coach for the Seattle Seahawks.

Joseph Jackson Fuller

The Bimbia mission station and school, the first in mainland Cameroons, was founded in 1844/5 by the Fuller and Merrick families, and was quickly followed by a second at Duala founded by Alfred Saker and his family with the Sierra Leonian Thomas Horton Johnson.

KAIR

KAIR-FM, a radio station (93.7 FM) licensed to Horton, Kansas, United States

Lester Horton

Other figures who emerged from Horton's school and company include actress Lelia Goldoni and Sondra Kerr Blake.

Maria Lopez

Judge Lopez's decision also angered residents of the Mary Ellen McCormack housing development in South Boston where Horton would serve his house arrest.

Mason Bendewald

Bendewald directed Tony Horton in P90X Extreme Home Fitness, reputed to be the most successful fitness series produced in the U.S. – selling millions worldwide.

Maxwell Street

The scene opens with John Lee Hooker playing his song Boom Boom with Big Walter Horton playing harmonica, on the street before the film's stars, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, enter a restaurant owned and operated by Aretha Franklin looking for Matt "Guitar" Murphy and "Blue" Lou Marini.

Moses Haughton

Moses Haughton the elder, (sometimes spelled "Horton") painter, designer and engraver who spent most of his life in Birmingham

Myles Horton

They included Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks (who studied with Horton shortly before her decision to keep her seat on the Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955), John Lewis, James Bevel, Bernard Lafayette, Ralph Abernathy, John B. Thompson, and many others.

No Bird Sing

Rapper and pianist Joe Horton (stage name Eric Blair, after George Orwell) and guitarist Robert Mulrennan were members of the four-piece band Hyder Ali with Kahlil Brewington and Edwin Scherer.

Phineas Horton

When Frankie was a young girl, Horton learned of the existence of the Fantastic Four, a member of which team went by the name of the Human Torch.

Randy Horton

A top level cricketer offered trials to play for Worcestershire County Cricket Club, Horton turned down the opportunity to play English County cricket and Football League football for Huddersfield Town to stay in a warmer climate following completing his Oxford University Institute of Education Teacher Training Certificate from Culham College in Oxfordshire, England.

Robin W.G. Horton

Horton's sister-in-law is renowned Nigerian sculptor Sokari Douglas Camp.

Sugar-Foot Rag

"Sugar-Foot Rag" (or Sugarfoot Rag), is the title of a song written by Hank Garland and Vaughn Horton (given on Red Foley's record label as George Vaughn).

The Irony of Fate

The film is traditionally broadcast in Russia and the former Soviet republics every New Year's Eve, and is widely regarded as a classic piece of Russian popular culture: Andrew Horton‏ and Michael Brashinsky likened its status to that held by Frank Capra's 1946 It's a Wonderful Life in the United States as a holiday staple.

The Radio Network

The company was bought out by a syndicate that included The New Zealand Herald and New Zealand Listener publisher Wilson & Horton and United States radio company Clear Channel Communications; Wilson & Horton was then purchased by Ireland-based media conglomerate Independent News & Media, and onsold to Independent's Australian subsidiary APN.

Thomas E. Knight

Knight was portrayed by actor Ken Kercheval in the 1976 TV movie Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys.

Wesley W. Horton

Horton researched and prepared the plaintiffs' position in the landmark school finance case Horton v. Meskill on behalf of his son Barnaby, the lead plaintiff.

William L. Breit

Murder at the Margin by Marshall Jevons (joint pseudonym with Kenneth Elzinga) (Glen Ridge: Thomas Horton and Daughters, 1978).

Willie Horton

Beginning on September 21, 1988, the Americans for Bush arm of the National Security Political Action Committee (NSPAC), under the auspices of Floyd Brown, began running a campaign ad entitled "Weekend Passes", using the Horton case to attack Dukakis.


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